THE Headmaster of the Oti Senior High School in the Krachi-East District of the Volta Region, Mr George Torme, has appealed to the government to provide it with boarding facilities and also put the school under the Northern Scholarship Scheme.
The school, which is in a deprived area and educating the children of farmers and fishermen, who produce food to feed the nation, is a day institution where all the students pay fees.
In an interview, Mr Torme said that was making learning and teaching very difficult since most of the students had to pay their own fees.
He said most of the 732 students, comprising 530 boys and 222 girls, travelled long distances on bicycles or on foot to the school daily.
The school, the headmaster said, was established in 1991 but lacked infrastructure like furniture, classrooms, administrative block, science laboratory and a vehicle, stressing that “indeed, over 60 per cent of the students, especially the fresh ones do not have furniture”.
“We also have no vehicle, so we rely on hired vehicles, which comes at a high cost”, the headmaster said.
Mr Torme commended the Parent-Teacher Association for providing some furniture and also helping the school over the years, something he thought could not go on forever.
He also thanked the Krachi East District Assembly for assisting them with a three-classroom block to alleviate their plight.
In spite of all these problems, the headmaster said the school was expecting an additional 300 new students, who had started coming in for courses in Business, Agriculture, Technical Skills and General Arts.
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